Re: wsmoused broken since 9.1

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> I have to admit I only ever use it to shut up stupid USB mice from
>>> reconnecting every minute [...]
>> How does it affect that?  [...]
> Simply by opening the mouse device (and the USB endpoint), the device
> thinks it is supported and stops the stupid "damn, the OS did miss me
> attaching and the user won't be able to do anything w/o click and
> point device, so let us be clever and fix this for them".

I guess what surprises me is that the device hears about it.  I would
have expected a mouse to be an input-only device, with the kernel just
doing nothing with the incoming samples if nobody is interested.

I suppose I'm not familiar enough with USB.  (But, the more I learn
about USB, the less I want to learn more....)

In any case, thanks for explaining!

> All modern USB mice I have do this.  You recognize it by a very
> stable attach-disconnect interval.

I'll have to check.  My impression was that the disconnect/reconnect
was random, but I could have just not been paying enough attention.

> There is a second kind of breakage affecting mice that you did use
> for some time already and where the cable becomes bad at the entry
> into the mouse housing (probably due to bending during movements).
> This makes power for the chip inside the mouse flaky and it randomly
> disconnects.

Thanks again.  I'll keep that in mind in case the timing looks too
random to be the other syndrome.

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